Three Black Bars! [Solved]

When using KDE3 on ArchLinux I get three little black bars on the screen.I am running KDE with nVidia drivers I am using the ones from ArchLinux not from nVidia's site. This bug occurs when using compiz-fusion also. It doesn't seem to affect performance but it is an annoying artifact on the screen.
http://sean.quotaless.com/images/snapshot3.png
http://sean.quotaless.com/images/snapshot4.png
I fixed it! It seems that splashy caused there I just disabled it as 15 secs of eye candy isn't worth 3 + hours of annoyances
Last edited by Sean-Der (2008-01-06 22:24:17)

This is another screenshot, from what I know normally macbooks don t have black borders around, the screen just fully fill the monitor space...

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